Thine Festival Approacheth!

There's just a few more short weeks until 2 and 1/2 evenings/mornings of animation related hoopla ensues that is this year's SoDak Animation Festival.  There's a decent, though concentrated li neup of indie shorts - some fun stuff from MAKE studios of Minneapolis (semi-local?), the good ol' stock of NYC indie animations and some international entries that were a welcome surpise to get  thanks to Chris B. for calling on those folks.  Sita Sings the Blues, a groundbreaking feature-length animation by independent animator Nina Paley screens on Friday the 9th at 6 at the PAC.  And be there on Friday eve after the shows for the awards presentation, where one lucky SDSU student will be awarded a cash prize and a most coveted Golden Cowbell!

Check out the website for a rough schedule to date - more coming soon as we hammer down playlists.  Tell yourselves and your pals to plan on coming.  Free for SDSU students, faculty and staff and door prizes will be awarded including cool stuff from the art museum and gift cards from The Cottonwood Bistro.  So for crying out loud, go there and stay there!  Thanks for reading.

Troika to appear at SoDak!

Now it's official. Reid Thompson, creative director at Troika Design Group in Hollywood, CA will be the keynote speaker at this year's SoDak Animation Festival. Troika Design Group specializes in major network rebranding for broadcast and some pretty amazing motion graphics and animation. A must-see for students of animation, design, film and anyone interested in cool stuff on tv and how it gets made. Check out Troika's gloriousness at www.troika.tv.

Thompson will speak on the evening of October 8 at SDSU's Studio Theatre at the Performing Arts Center. More details to come at www.sodakanimation.com.